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'yr'  HE  Code  of  By-Laws  of  the  Society  of  Colonial  Wars  in 
^^  the  State  of  California  was  adopted  at  its  First  General 
Court  held  in  the  city  of  Los  Angeles  on  the  seventh  day  of 
March,  1896. 

The  untimely  death  of  the  Secretary,  Harry  Woodville 
Latham,  has  filled  our  hearts  with  sorrow  that  so  bright  a 
young  life  should  be  taken  from  us  in  the  midst  of  his  use- 
fulness. All  of  the  work  of  the  Society  properly  falling  to 
the  duties  of  his  ofiEce,  has  been  necessarily  delayed,  but  there 
is  so  general  a  demand  for  copies  of  the  By-Laws,  that  I  have 
thought  it  best  to  have  them  issued  at  once,  and  not  to  post- 
pone their  publication  to  an  indefinite  future.  I  therefore 
certify  to  the  correctness  of  this  printed  copy  of  the  By-Laws 
without  waiting  for  the  election  of  a  Secretary,  to  whom  such 
an  attestation  more  properly  belongs. 

HOLDRIDGE   OZRO   CoLLINS, 
Los  Angeles,  CaL,  Jime  15,  i8g6.  Governor. 


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preamble. 

^'HE  Society  of  Colonial  Wars  in  the  State  of 
Vi^  California  has  been  organized  for  the  purpose  of 
perpetuating  the  memory  of  those  events  and  of  the  men  who, 
in  military,  naval  and  civil  positions  of  high  trust  and  re- 
sponsibility, by  their  acts  and  counsel  assisted  in  the  estab- 
lishment, defense  and  preservation  of  the  American  Colonies, 
and  were  the  founders  of  this  Nation;  to  collect  and  pre- 
serve manuscripts,  rolls,  relics  and  records :  to  provide  suita- 
ble commemorations  or  memorials  relating  to  the  American 
Colonial  period,  and  to  inspire  in  its  members  the  fraternal 
and  patriotic  spirit  of  their  forefathers,  and  in  the  commu- 
nity, respect  and  reverence  for  those  whose  public  services 
made  our  freedom  and  unity  possible. 

We  acknowledge  the  supremacy  of  the  General  Society 
in  all  matters  which  have  been  and  which  shall  be  delegated 
to  it,  and  we  pledge  ourselves  to  observe  and  maintain  all 
laws,  rules  and  regulations  for  the  government  and  control  of 
the  United  State  Societies,  which  shall  be  lawfully  prescribed 
by  the  General  Society. 

Now,  for  the  better  government  of  this  Society,  and  the 
achievement  of  the  ends  desired,  we  have  adopted  the  follow- 
ing Code  of  By-Laws  : 


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article  I. 

NAME. 

HE  Society  shall   be   known  by  the  name  and   title  of 
"  Society  of  Colonial  Wars  in  the  State  of  California." 

article  II. 

MEMBERSHIP. 

I  ^fl  ■'^^  male  person  above  the  age  of  twenty-one  years,  of 
'^  good  moral  character  and  reputation,  shall  be  eligible 
to  membership  in  the  Society  of  Colonial  Wars  in  the  State 
of  California,  who  is  lineally  descended  in  the  male  or  female 
line  from  an  ancestor  : 

(i.)  Who  served  as  a  military  or  naval  officer,  or  as  a 
soldier,  sailor  or  marine,  or  a  privateersman,  under  authority 
of  the  Colonies  which  afterward  formed  the  United  States, 
or  in  the  forces  of  Great  Britain  which  participated  with  those 
of  the  said  Colonies  in  any  wars  in  which  the  said  Colonies 
were  engaged,  or  in  which  they  enrolled  men,  from  the  settle- 
ment of  Jamestown,  May  13th,  1607,  to  the  battle  of  Lexing- 
V^^    ton,  April  19th,  1775;  or, 

^^         (2.)     Who  held  office  in  any  of  the  Colonies  between  the 
dates  mentioned,  either  as 

(a)  Director-General,  Vice-Director-General,  or  member 
of  the  Council  or  legislative  body  in  the  Colony  of  New 
Netherland ; 

(b)  Governor,  Lieutenant  or  Deputy-Governor,  Lord 
Proprietor,  member  of  the  King's  or  Governor's  Council  or 
legislative  body  in  the  Colonies  of  New  York,  New  Jersey, 
Virginia,  Pennsylvania  and  Delaware  ; 

(c)  Lord  Proprietor,  Governor,  Deputy-Governor,  or 
member  of  the  Council,  or  of  the  legislative  body  in  Maryland 
and  the  Carolinas ; 

(d)  Governor,  .Deputy-Governor,  Governor's  Assistant, 
or  Commissioner  to  the  United  Colonies  of  New  England,  or 


member  of  the  Council,  body  of  assistants,  or  legislative  body 
in  any  of  the  New  England  Colonies. 


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article  III. 

OFFICERS. 

HE  officers  of  this  Society  shall  be  a  Governor,  a  Dep- 
uty-Governor, a  Lieutenant-Governor,  a  Deputy-Gov- 
ernor General,  a  Secretary,  a  Treasurer,  a  Registrar,  a  His- 
torian, a  Chaplain,  a  Chancellor  and  a  Surgeon,  who  shall  be 
ex  officio  members  of  the  Council. 

article  IV. 

GENTLEMEN  OF  THE  COUNCIL  AND  COMMITTEES. 

^^^ERE  shall  be  a  Council,  consisting  of  nine  members, 
Vl^  who  shall  be  styled  "Gentlemen  of  the  Council,"  in  ad- 
dition to  the  ex  officio  members  ;  a  Committe  on  Membership, 
consisting  of  five  members  ;  a  Committee  on  Historical  Docu- 
ments, consisting  of  three  members,  and  a  Committee  on 
Entertainment,  consisting  of  five  members. 


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article  V. 

ELECTION  OF  OFFICERS. 

HE  officers,  together  with  the  Gentlemen  of  the  Council, 
the  delegates  and  alternates  to  the  General  Society,  and 
members  of  all  the  Standing  Committees,  except  the  Com- 
mittee on  Membership  and  the  Deputy-Governor  General, 
shall  be  elected  by  ballot  at  the  General  Court.  A  plurality 
vote  shall  elect,  and  said  officers  and  committees  shall  hold 
office  for  one  year,  or  until  their  successors  shall  be  duly 
elected  and  qualified. 

Vacancies  among  the  officers,  or  in  the  Council  or  Com- 
mittees, shall  be  filled  for  the  residue  of  the  current  year  at 
any  meeting  of  the  Council  called  for  that  purpose. 

Provided :  That  in   case  there  shall  be  a  vacancy  in  the 


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office  of  Governor,  the  Deputy-Governor,  and  in  case  of  his 
inability  to  act,  the  Lieutenant  Governor  shall  thereupon  suc- 
ceed to  said  office  of  Governor, 

The   Deputy-Governor  General   shall  be    elected  by  the 
delegates  to  the  General  Society. 

article  VI. 

COUNCIL. 

HE  Council  may  provide  by  resolution  for  regular  meet- 


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ings,  but  it  may  be  convened  at  the  call  of  the  Gov- 
ernor or  Secretary,  or  upon  the  written  request  of  three  of  its 
members.  Five  shall  be  a  quorum  for  the  transaction  of  busi- 
ness. It  shall  have  general  control  and  management  of  the 
affairs  and  funds  of  the  Society,  and  it  may  appoint  such 
special  committees  as  to  it  may  seem  proper,  composed  wholly 
or  in  part  of  members  of  the  Society  outside  of  its  own  num- 
ber. The  Council,  for  cause,  may  suspend  any  officer,  and 
its  action  must  be  reported,  in  writing,  to  the  Society  for 
approval  or  the  reverse,  within  thirty  days  thereafter. 

article  VII. 

COMMITTEE  ON  MEMBERSHIP. 

'/T  HE  Committee  on  Membership  shall  be  chosen  by  the 
^*^  Gentlemen  of  the  Council,  and  shall  be  elected  for  one 
year.  Three  members  shall  constitute  a  quorum,  and  a  nega- 
tive vote  of  one  member  shall  cause  an  adverse  report  to  the 
Council  upon  the  application  of  any  candidate. 

The  proceedings  of  the  Committee  shall  be  secret  and 
confidential.  It  shall  have  power  to  elect  from  its  members  a 
Chairman  and  Secretary,  and  to  establish  regulations  for  its 
goverment  not  inconsistent  with  the  by-laws  of  the  Society. 

Any  member  failing  to  attend  three  successive  meetings 
without  sufficient  excuse,  shall  be  dropped  from  the  commit- 
tee, and  the  Council  shall  fill  the  vacancy  caused  thereby. 


Hrttcle  viii. 

COMMITTEE  ON  HISTORICAL  DOCUMENTS. 

^T^E  Committee  on  Historical  Documents,  in  connection 
Vi^  with  the  Historian,  who  shall  be  ex-officio  chairman,  may 
prepare  papers  on  matters  of  interest  to  the  Society,  and  sub- 
mit them  to  the  Council.  No  paper  shall  be  printed  without 
the  order  of  the  Council.  It  shall  use  all  possible  efforts  to 
secure  original  documents,  muster-rolls  and  other  papers  or 
articles  connected  with  the  Colonial  history  of  the  country. 
It  shall  be  empowered  to  correspond  in  the  name  of  the 
Society  with  individuals,  societies  and  governments,  in  the 
course  of  its  investigations.  It  shall  keep  a  record  of  its 
transactions. 

article  IX. 

COMMITTEE  ON  ENTERTAINMENT. 

YY  HE  Committee  on  Entertainment  shall  be  the  Stewards 
^^  of  the  Society's  banquets,  but  must  present  to  the  Gov- 
ernor a  list  of  all  speakers  and  invited  guests  for  his  ap- 
proval. 

They  shall  have  power  to  select  places  for  banquets,  and 
to  issue  tickets  for  the  same,  but  they  shall  assume  no  ex- 
pense without  the  approval  of  the  Council. 

They  shall  have  charge  of  the  annual  election,  and  shall 
install  the  officers  elected. 

article  X. 

ELECTION  OF  MEMBERS. 

'IfJVERY  application  for  membership  shall  be  made  in 
^^^  writing,  subscribed  by  the  applicant  under  oath  or 
affirmation,  upon  blanks  prescribed  by  the  Council,  and 
approved  by  two  members  of  the  Society  over  their  signa- 
tures Applications  shall  be  accompanied  by  proofs  of  eligi- 
bility, and  shall  be  referred  to  the  Committee  on  Membership, 
who  shall  carefully  investigate  the  same  and  report  their 
recommendation  thereon  to  the  Council.  ^ 


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Members  may  be  elected  at  any  meeting  of  the  Council, 
but  one  negative  vote  of  every  five  ballots  cast  shall  cause  the 
rejection  of  the  candidate. 

A  rejected  candidate  shall  not  be  permitted  to  apply  for 
membership  until  the  lapse  of  one  year,  except  by  the  unani- 
mous consent  of  the  Committee  on  Membership  and  the  Gen- 
tlemen of  the  Council. 

Payment  of  the  membership  fee  and  dues  for  the  current 
year  shall  accompany  the  application.  In  case  the  candidate 
shall  be  rejected,  the  amount  paid  by  him  shall  be  returned. 

Membership  shall  be  hereditary  for  all  male  descendants 
of  the  present  members  of  this  Society,  and  of  those  who 
may  hereafter  be  elected,  up  to  the  limit  that  the  Society  ma}'- 
hereafter  determine  upon,  subject  to  the  vote  of  the  Council 
upon  the  moral  qualification  of  the  person  who  may  be  an 
heir  at  any  time  to  such  membership. 

article  XL 

DECLARATION. 

^IjJVHRY  applicant  for  membership  shall  declare  upon 
'^^  honor  that  he  will  use  his  best  efforts  to  promote  the 
purposes  of  the  Society,  and  will  observe  the  Constitution 
and  By-Laws  of  the  same;  and  if  a  citizen  of  the  United 
States,  he  shall  declare  that  he  will  support  the  Constitution 
of  the  United  States.  Such  declaration  shall  be  in  writing, 
and  subscribed  by  the  applicant. 

article  xiL 

RESIGNATION,  DISQUALIFICATION  AND  EXPULSION. 

mo  resignation  of  any  member  shall  become  effective  un- 
■  less  consented  to  by  the  Council. 

No  person  who  has  become  enrolled  as  a  member  of  this 

Society  shall  be  permitted   to  continue   in  membership  after 

his  proofs  of  eligibility  shall  have  been  found  to  be  defective. 

After  six  months'  notice  to  such  person  to  substantiate 


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his  claim,  and  upon  his  failure  satisfactorily  so  to  do,  the 
Council  must  direct  the  Secretary  to  erase  his  name  from  the 
membership  roll. 

The  said  person  shall  have  the  right  to  appeal  to  the 
Society  at  its  next  Court  or  to  the  General  Court.  If  the 
said  appeal  be  sustained  by  a  two-thirds  vote  of  the  members 
present  at  such  Court,  his  name  shall  be  restored  to  said 
membership  roll. 

iVny  member,  for  conduct  inconsistent  with  the  character 
of  a  gentleman  and  man  of  honor,  or  for  serious  disloyalty 
to  this  Society,  or  for  other  grave  cause,  may  be  suspended 
or  expelled  from  the  Society.  But  no  member  shall  be  sus- 
pended or  expelled  unless  written  charges  are  presented 
against  him.  The  Council,  after  hearing  such  charges,  and 
giving  him  an  opportunity  to  reply  to  them,  may  act  by  a 
two-thirds  vote,  and  its  action  shall  be  final.  The  insignia  of 
said  member  shall  thereupon  be  returned  to  the  Treasurer  of 
the  Society,  and  his  rights  therein  shall  be  extinguished  or 
suspended.  The  Treasurer  shall  refund  to  said  member  the 
amount  paid  for  said  insignia. 

article  xiii. 

PURPOSES. 

BT  every  meeting  of  the  Council  the  purposes  and  gen- 
'  eral  welfare  of  the  Society  shall  be  considered,  and 
measures  taken  to  promote  and  secure  them.  No  party  polit- 
ical question  of  the  day,  nor  existing  controversial  religious 
subject  shall  be  discussed  or  considered  in  the  Council,  or  at 
any  meeting  of  this  Society,  or  of  any  of  its  committees. 

article  XIV. 

COMMEMORATIONS. 

'^^HE  Society  shall  celebrate  yearly  some  event  in  Colonial 
Vi^  history,  as  a  festival  day,  and  its  members  shall  dine 
together  at  least  once  in  each  year. 


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Hrttcle  XV. 

LOCAL   SECRETARIES. 

7|Yl|HHN  ten  or  more  members  of  this  Society  shall  be 
^^^  resident  in  a  city  or  town  of  the  State  of  California, 
one  of  their  number  may  be  appointed  Local  Secretary  by  the 
Council,  to  hold  office  for  one  year,  or  until  his  successor  be 
duly  appointed.  Subject  to  the  approval  of  the  Council,  a 
Local  Secretary  may,  in  conjunction  with  the  members  locally 
resident,  organize  a  Chapter  of  this  Society  ;  arrange  local 
commemorations  of  men  and  events  of  Colonial  history ;  hold 
annual  and  special  meetings  and  elect  such  local  officers  as 
may  be  desired ;  provided,  however,  that  all  reports  and  recom- 
mendations from  said  Local  Chapter  to  this  Society  shall  be 
made  through  said  Local  Secretary. 

Hrttcle  XVL 

FLAG. 

^T'HE  Flag  of  this  Society  shall  be  Argent,  a  Cross  of  Saint 
^^  George  gules  ;  an  escutcheon  or,  bordered  sable,  charged 
with   a    Grizzly   Bear,     passant,    proper ;    under    the     motto 
"  Eureka." 

article  xviL 

INSIGNIA  AND  DIPLOMA. 

^^HE  Insignia  and  Diploma  of  Membership  shall  be  those 
^»^  of  the  General  Society ;  provided,  however,  that  mem- 
bers may  receive  a  certificate  of  membership  in  this  Society, 
signed  by  the  Governor,  Registrar  and  Secretary,  in  such 
form  as  may  be  prescribed  by  the  Council. 

article  xviiL 

SEAL. 

'^^HE  Great  Seal  of  this  society  shall  be  :    Within  a  beaded 

^^  annulet  a    title  scroll;  Society   of  Colonial  Wars   in   the 

State  of  California  1642-1775   surrounding  a  group  of  Colo- 


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nial  weapons;  over  all  a  shield,  or,  a  grizzly  bear  passant 
proper  on  a  chief,  per  pale  gules  and  argent  a  tower  triple 
towered  of  the  first  (Castile)  and  a  lion  of  the  third  crowned  of 
the  shield  (Leon). 


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article  XIX. 

COURTS 

HE  General  Court  of  the  Society  shall  be  held  on  the 
twentieth  day  of  December  in  each  year. 

Should  said  date  fall  on  a  Sunday,  then  the  General  Court 
shall  be  held  on  the  following  Monday. 

Special  Courts  may  be  called  by  the  Governor  at  such 
times  as  in  his  opinion  the  interests  of  the  Society  may  de- 
mand, and  they  must  be  called  by  the  Secretary,  by  direction 
of  the  Council,  or  upon  the  written  request  of  nine  members. 

The  notice  for  the  holding  of  the  General  Court  shall 
be  given  as  is  provided  by  law  for  the  notice  of  annual  meet- 
ings of  corporations  in  the  State  of  California. 

All  notices  of  Special  Courts  shall  be  sent  out  at  least 
twenty  days  before  the  date  of  such  Courts. 

Ten  members  shall  be  necessary  to  constitute  a  quorum 
for  the  transaction  of  business,  and  in  all  cases,  except  the 
amendment  of  the  By-Laws,  a  majority  of  those  present,  or 
represented  by  proxy  shall  constitute  a  vote. 

article  XX 

PROXIES  AND  CUMULATIVE  VOTING. 

BNY  member  who  is  unable  to  be  present  at  a  General  or 
Special  Court  of  this  Society  may,  nevertheless,  have 
his  vote  counted,  having  first  duly  authorized,  in  writing,  a 
member  to  act  as  his  proxy  thereat. 

In  all  elections  of  officers,  cumulative  voting  shall  be 
lawful. 


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article  XXL 

ANCESTRAL  RECORD. 

'liJVERY  member  who  shall  present  to  the  Registrar,  duly 
^^^  verified  before  an  officer  authorized  by  law  to  adminis- 
nister  an  oath,  a  statement  in  writing,  containing  the  particu- 
lars of  his  marriage,  and  the  names  and  dates  of  the  birth  of 
his  children,  and  such  facts  concering  his  life  and  ancestrj^, 
and  the  ancestry  of  his  wife,  as  he  may  desire  to  have  per- 
petuated, shall  be  entitled  to  have  the  same  filed  among  the 
archives,  and  spread  at  large  upon  the  records  of  the  Registrar 
of  this  Society. 

article  XXII. 

ADDRESSES  OF  MEMBERS. 

^  T  shall  be  the  duty  of  every  member  to  inform  the  Secre- 
\J  tary,  by  written  communication,  of  his  place  of  resi- 
dence, and  of  any  change  thereof,  and  of  his  postoffice  ad- 
dress. Service  of  any  notice  under  the  By-Laws  on  any 
member,  addressed  to  his  last  residence  or  post  office  address, 
forwarded  by  mail,  shall  be  sufficient  service  of  notice. 

article  XXIII. 

DECEASE  OF  MEMBERS 

7tl  -PO-^  ^^^  death  of  any  member,  notice  thereof,  and  of  the 
^■^  time  and  place  of  the  funeral,  shall  be  sent  by  the 
Secretary  to  every  member  residing  in  the  county  of  the  de- 
ceased member,  and  thereupon  it  shall  become  the  duty  of 
members,  if  practicable,  to  attend  the  obsequies. 

Upon  the  information  of  the  decease  of  a  member,  the 
Governor  shall  appoint  from  the  Society  four  members  as  a 
Committee  to  represent  the  Society  at  the  funeral. 

Any  member  who  becomes  aware  of  the  death  of  a  fellow 
member,  shall  immediately  notify  the  Secretary  of  the  fact. 


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article  XXIV. 

FEES  AND  DUES. 

^^  HE  initiation  fee  shall  be  ten  dollars.  The  annual  dues 
VU  shall  be  five  dollars,  payable  between  the  first  days  of 
January  and  March  of  each  year,  after  which  latter  date  mem- 
bers who  have  not  paid  will  be  debarred  from  voting  at  the 
meetings  of  the  Society ; /'r^z/2'^^</,  that  any  member  elected 
during  the  last  three  months  of  the  year  shall  not  be  required 
to  pay  the  annual  dues  for  the  year  next  ensuing.  The  pay- 
ment at  any  one  time  of  fifty  dollars,  in  addition  to  the  initia- 
tion fee,  shall  constitute  life  membership,  such  payment  being 
in  lieu  of  all  annual  dues.  When  the  number  of  life  mem- 
bers shall  reach  one  hundred,  the  fee  for  life  membership 
thereafter  shall  be  one  hundred  dollars. 

A.ny  of  the  Charter  members  of  this  Society  who,  on  the 
30th  day  of  November,  1895,  was  a  member  of  another  State 
Society,  and  who  shall  desire  to  retain  his  older  membership,  is 
hereby  declared  to  be  a  member  of  this  Society,  with  power 
to  vote  at  any  of  its  meetings,  and  eligible  to  any  of  its 
offices,  and  he  shall  be  exempt  from  the  payment  of  annual 
dues  so  long  as  he  shall  retain  his  membership  in  his  former 
Society,  and  pay  annual  dues  therein. 

Any  member  who  may  contribute  two  hundred  and  fifty 
dollars  to  the  "  Permanent  Fund  "  of  the  Society,  shall  be 
exempt  from  payment  of  all  annual  dues,  and  this  exemption 
shall  extend  in  perpetuity  to  his  lineal  successors  in  member- 
ship from  the  same  propositus,  one  at  a  time,  who  shall  be  se- 
lected for  such  exemption  by  the  Society,  said  perpetual  mem- 
bership to  be  transmitted  by  the  holder  subject  to  the  ap- 
proval of  the  Council. 

The  Council  shall  have  the  power  to  drop  from  the  roll 
the  name  of  any  member  who  shall  be  at  least  two  years  in 
arrears  for  dues,  and  shall  fail  on  proper  notice  to  pay  the 
same  within   sixty  days  ;  and  on  being  dropped  his  member- 


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ship  shall  cease,  but  he  may  be  restored  to  membership  at  any- 
time by  the  Council  upon  his  written  application  and  the  pay. 
ment  of  all  arrears  to  the  date  of  his  restoration. 

Erttcle  XXV. 

PERMANENT  FUND. 

'^f^HERE  shall  be  a  "  Permanent  Fund,"  to  be  derived  from 
Vi^  all  Life  Membership  fees  and  contributions,  to  remain 
forever  for  the  use  of  the  Society,  the  income  only  of  which 
shall  be  expended. 

Hrtt'cle  xxvL 

GOVERNOR. 

^^HE  Governor,  or  in  his  absence  the  Deputy-Governor  or 
VU  Lieutenant-Governor,  or  a  Chairman  pro  tempore^  shall 
preside  at  all  Courts  of  the  Society,  and  shall  exercise  the 
duties  of  a  presiding  officer,  under  parliamentary  rules,  sub- 
ject to  an  appeal  to  the  Society.  He  shall  be  a  member  ex 
officio  of  all  Committees,  except  Nominating  Committees, 
and  the  Committee  on  Membership. 

The    Governor  shall   shall    have   power  to  convene   the 
Council  at  his  discretion. 

Brttcle  xxviL 

SECRETARY. 

'^^HE  Secretary  shall  conduct  the  general  correspondence 
\m  of  the  Society,  and  keep  a  record  thereof.  He  shall 
notify  all  persons  elected  to  membership  in  the  Society,  and 
shall  perform  such  other  duties  as  the  Society  or  his  office 
may  require.  He  shall  have  charge  of  the  seal,  certificates  of 
incorporation,  books,  by-laws,  historical  and  other  documents 
and  records  of  the  Society,  other  than  those  required  to  be 
deposited  with  the  Registrar.  He  shall  notify  the  Registrar 
of  all  admissions  to  membership.  He  shall  certify  all  acts  of 
the  Society  and,  when  required,  authenticate  them  under  seal. 


He  shall  have  charge  of  the  printing  and  of  publications 
issued  by  the  Society.  He  shall  give  due  notice  of  the  time 
and  place  of  holding  all  Courts  of  the  Society  and  of  the 
meetings  of  the  Council.  He  shall  be  ex  officio  Secretary  of 
the  Council,  and  he  shall  keep  a  full  and  complete  record  of 
all  the  proceedings  and  orders  of  the  Society  and  of  the  Coun- 
cil. In  his  absence  from  any  meeting  a  Secretary  pro  tempore 
may  be  designated  therefor. 

The  Secretary  may  be  paid  a  salary  at  the  discretion  of 
the  Council.  • 

article  xxvni. 

TREASURER. 

'W^HE  Treasurer  shall  collect  and  keep  the  funds  and  secur- 
^"^  ities  of  the  Society.  The  money  of  the  Society  shall  be 
deposited  in  some  bank  in  the  city  of  residence  of  the  Treas- 
urer to  the  credit  of  the  "Society  of  Colonial  Wars  in  the 
State  of  California,"  and  such  money  shall  be  drawn  thence 
on  the  checks  of  the  Treasurer  for  the  purposes  of  the  Society 
only.  He  shall  keep  a  true  account  of  his  receipts  and  pay- 
ments, and  at  each  annual  meeting  render  the  same  to  the 
Society. 

For  the  faithful  performance  of  his  duty  he  may  be 
required  to  give  such  security  as  the  Council  deems  proper. 

article  XXIX. 

HISTORIAN. 

'^T^HB  Historian  shall  keep  a  detailed  record  of  all  historical 
Vl^  and  commemorative  celebrations  of  the  Society,  and 
shall  edit  and  prepare  for  publication  such  historical  addresses, 
papers  and  other  documents  as  the  Council  may  see  proper  to 
publish. 

He  shall  also  prepare  a  necrological  list  for  the  year,  with 
biographies  of  deceased  members,  and  cause  the  same  to  be 
printed  in  an  appropriate  form,  by  direction  of  the  Council. 


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article  XXX. 

RESISTRAR. 

"^^HE  Registrar  shall  receive  and  file  all  the  proofs  upon 
^^  which  membership  or  supplemental  ancestral  record  has 
been  granted,  and  record  a  short  abstract  thereof.  He  shall 
make  a  record  of  all  diplomas  countersigned  by  him,  and  of 
all  documents  which  the  Society  may  obtain  ;  and,  under  the 
direction  of  the  Council,  he  shall  make  copies  of  such  papers 
as  the  owners  may  not  be  willing  to  have  in  the  keeping  of 
the  Society. 

Hrticle  xxxi. 

CHANCELLOR 

'^^HH  Chancellor  shall  be  a  lawyer,  duly  admitted  to  the 
Vi^  bar,  and  it  shall  be  his  duty  to  give  legal  opinions  on 
matters  affecting  the  Society  when  demanded  by  proper  au- 
thority. 

article  xxxii. 

SURGEON. 

'^^HE  Surgeon  shall  be  a  practicing  physician. 

article  xxxiii. 

CHAPLAIN. 

^^  HE  Chaplain  shall  be  an  ordained  minister  of  a  Christian 
^'^  church,  and  it  shall  be  his  duty  to  ofiiciate  when  called 
upon  by  the  proper  officers. 

article  xxxiv. 

ORDER  OF    BUSINESS. 

""^^HE  General  and  Special  Courts  of  the  Society  shall  be 
^■^  conducted  according  to  parliamentary  law,  and  the  fol- 
lowing order  of  business  shall  be  followed  so  far  the  same  may 
be  applicable : 


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Calling  the  Court  to  order  by  the  Governor. 

Prayer  by  the  Chaplain. 

Reading  of  the  record  of  prior  Courts  not  acted  upon. 

Reports  from  Officers,  Council  and  Committees. 

Unfinished  business. 

New  business.  , 

Elections. 

Benediction  by  the  Chaplain. 


article  XXXV. 


AMENDMENTS. 

mo  alteration  or  amendment  of  these  by-laws  shall  be 
'  made  unless  notice  thereof  shall  be  duly  given  in  writ- 
ing, signed  by  the  member  proposing  the  same,  at  a  General 
or  Special  Court  of  the  Society,  nor  unless  the  same  shall  be 
adopted  at  a  subsequent  Court,  held  at  least  thirty  days  after 
such  notice,  by  a  vote  of  two-thirds  of  the  members  present. 


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